In my neck of the woods they’re extremely vigorous until they reach their “top height” then stop, with almost everything I have grafted to an MM102 growing to about two metres in the first year, and very little after that, just thickening up the trunk instead.
It’s the most used rootstock for retail dwarf apple trees here in Australia, and has fewer compatibility issues than similarly sized G/CG series, and as we don’t have firelight it’s less a concern if the rootstocks are resistant to it or not.
Looks like Gurneys has it on m111 rootstock. I hate buying from them. I’m never impressed with the trees but will probably get 2 triumphs from them this year. Somehow they always have something i want not available elsewhere.
Adam’s County Nursery has it available on a semi-dwarf rootstock. I’m not sure which rootstock they use. Depending on what Gurney’s shipping is (and if you want/have a place to put 3 more trees) it might be worth considering.
I thought I would bump this thread. Any reports on Triumph? How is the vigor and disease resistance as well as how does the fruit taste although many of you don’t have trees fruiting yet.
The copy I got from Cummins so crooked, I butchered it and grafted to another rootstock.
Doing better my graft is than the recovering tree I bought. But at least 18 months before I get a bloom.
Super late reply here but wanted to acknowledge what a great post this is. Well reasoned and thoughtful, and to my mind proves why it’s worthwhile for amateur growers to take a stab at breeding their own varieties. So thanks for this!
First Triumph apples on g.935 from Schlabach’s Nursery in NY. Planted 2022.
My soil is WAY low in Boron which is the most common cause of bitter pit. I thought I had dusted this tree (root system) with some Borox but apparently not. Next year.
I am trying bagging for the first time to try and reduce predation from squirrels (DEATH TO SQUIRRELS) and birds. We’ll see.
Triumph apple first taste. My g.935 tree planted 2023 (says 2022 in a prior post but that’s wrong) yielded 8 apples. 3" diameter fruit. I’m in the Twin Cities so ground zero for UM apples.
If you like Pink Lady, you’ll love Triumph. A bit juicier than Pink Lady, not quite as hard and a bit sweeter. Less juicy than a Honeycrisp.
Picked a test apple today and will probably pick the rest this week.
Following…
Interested in anything with Liberty genetics.
There are also Liberty x Keepsake apples: AL137, AL138, AL140, AL146. Not sure how to find more information on them or how to acquire.
Paul,
I bought a bag of Triumph apples from a local orchard last year. I thought they were a very good fresh eating apple, which is the only way I used them. They don’t have the explosive crispness of Honeycrisp(which other variety does?), but I thought they had a nice firm, crisp texture, and the flavor was quite good. I would say the flavor was a classic apple flavor, if that makes sense…nothing unusual nor unique about it’s taste that I can recall.
The same orchard also had the Kudos apple for sale this year, which I also bought a bag of.
I should add that I had a Liberty apple tree growing and fruiting here about twenty years ago. If you like a crunchy/juicy apple, which I do, I think you’d like that variety. The fruit were on the smaller size, but I really liked it for a fresh eating apple. I don’t know why that tree died out? Maybe not hardy enough, or something else? I could have done a better job of taking care of my apple trees back then.
Country Blossom Farm near Alexandria, MN. The owner told me that he had a crop of about 40 bushels of Kudos to sell this year. I bought a bag of them in late September. I don’t know if they have any left to sell, as I haven’t been back there since I bought that bag.
